INDEX. 



Red Eirer of Louisiana, account of, 

 from Freeman's MS. jour- 

 nal, ii. - 302 et seq. 

 forests of, ii. - 303 

 settlement of, ii. - 304 

 colour of its water, ii. 305 

 difficulty in ascending, ii. 307 

 remariib on the tributaries 



and country of, ii. - 314 

 sources unknowu, ii. - 316 



Revenge, with anecdotes, i. - 3n 

 Ribe> Aureuni, i - - 501 



Rigolet de Bon Dieu, ii. - 304 



Rivers of the Ozark mountains, specu- 

 lation couceriiiug, ii. 281, 294 

 Road, national, i. - - 17 



or trace from Charaton to 



Council Blufi, i. - 415 



to Columbia river, ii. 34 



Spanish, li. - - 69 



to Santa Fe, ii. - 94 



Robins, i. - - - 602 



Rock, remarkable, in Canadian ri- 

 ver, li. - - 162 

 Rocky Mountains descried, i. - 489 

 arrival at, i. - 503 

 remarks concerning, ii. - 1 

 scenery of, ii. - 9 

 examined, ii. - - 14 

 peuetrateo by the party, ii. 18 

 view of from the summit of 



James's Peak, ii. - 30 



scenery in their vicinity, ii. 77, 



79, 82 



Rosa mutabilis, i. - - 69 



Rudbeckia tagetes described, ii. 68 



S. 



Sabbath observed by the party as a 



day of rest, i. - 457 



Sacrifice to (he Great Star, i. - 357 

 Saddle, Indian, speedy construction 



of, by a Squaw, ii. - 62 



Saline springs, i. - 15,16,33,48 

 Saline, U. S. near Sbawneetown, i. 33 

 OD a brauch of Le Mine ri- 

 vet, i. - - 100 

 on Neosho, or Grand river, ii. 251 

 on Illinois river of Arkansa, ii. 254 

 river of Washita, ii. - 300 

 Salt, native, procured by an Anka- 

 ra, i. - - 449 

 unsuccessful search for, ii. 80 

 obtained from the Kaskai- 

 as, ii. - - 115 

 Sandhill crane, i. - 344 

 ii. - - 328 

 Sandhills, or drifts, ii. - 147 

 Sand rat, or goffer, desc. i. - 406 

 Vol. II. 



Sandstone, crystalline, i. - 417 

 argillaceous, i. 27,34,40,47 

 at the base of the Rocky 



Mountains, li. 1,5,11,13 



slaty, ii. - - 39 



organic remains in, ii. . 48 



inclined, of the Arkansa, ii. 44 



formation, exient of, ii. 76 



on Red River, ii. - 304 



of the Ozark Mountains, ii. 288 



Santa Fe, road to, ii. - - 94 

 Say, Mr., detached with a party at 



St. Charles, i. - 71 

 adventures of his detach- 

 ment, i. - - 75 

 detached with a party from 



F.anklin, to fort Osage, i. 95 

 detached with a party to ex- 

 plore the country i-etween 

 fort Osage and the Pawnee 



villages, i. - 108 

 account of his journey to the 



Koiizas, i. - - 116 

 his party plundered by a Paw- 

 nee war party, i. - 132 

 Sciurus lateralis, ii. - 324 

 macrurus, i. - - 115 

 quactrivittatus, desc. ii. 45 

 lateralis, desc. ii. - 46 

 graniniurus, desc. ii. 72 

 Scolopendra, ii. - - 98 

 Selenile, ii. - - 98 

 Settlers, first, their character, ii. 279 

 Sbawneetown, arrival at, i. - 31 

 Shawnee Indian's head elevated on 



a pole, ii. - - 285 

 Shell of ihe Omawhaws, object of 



superstition, i. - 325 

 Shienne chief, ii. - - 177 

 war party, ii. - 195 

 Shippingspori, i. - - 27 

 Short Mountain creek and settle- 

 ment, ii. - - 266 

 Sickness of the exploring party, and 



its cause, ii. - - 10 



at Cape Girardeau, ii, 321 



Sienite of the Rocky Mountains, ii. 5 



Signals, Indian, ii. - - 140 



Siher creek, i. - - 28 



hills noticed, i. - - 29 



Sink holes, i. - - 58 



Smithland, i, - - 35 

 Solanum triflorum and heteran- 



drum, i. - - 453 

 tuberosum, i. - - 94 

 Spaniards, their measures to inter- 

 cept Fieeniau's party, ii. 312 

 Spider, bird-catching, ii. - 157 

 Springs, boiling, ii. - 21,23,32 

 mineral, ii. - - 43 

 



